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Am I the only one in the world that is worried about this & the fact that Trump is contacting EVERYONE in the US on their cell phone today? Nazi's used subliminal suggestion...how far has this technology progressed? It would explain a LOT.

Yeah, I know Trump supporters aren't as well educated & they are more vulnerably to be drawn into Trump rhetoric & buy into #informationwarfare But what sane person would be triggered into "Lock her Up" chants > 2 years after extensive investigations that disproved allegations?

It defies logic. And then there is Bannon & companies like Cambridge Analytica. The Koch brothers are an entity unto itself in the area of polysemic messaging & manipulation of thought. In 1980 when Libertarian David Koch ran in a presidential campaign he garnered 1% of the vote.

To provide additional context on Caitlin’s suspension, we return to the infamous @Shareblue and events earlier this month, when @DisobedientNews and others who have reported on the fallacies surrounding #Guccifer2.0 became the subjects of a disingenuous smear piece.

That attack was rapidly amplified by none other than Caroline Orr, a writer and Editor of Shareblue, who spread the hit piece to her hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers, many of whom appear to be part of a massive botnet.

A new strategy: Brainwashing Trump’s base and the rest of the society into whitewashing and normalizing Putin’s Russia. The new narrative is “Yes, Trump works with Putin. It is perfectly normal. Russia is a friend. Putin is good. Thank you, Russia, for helping Trump.”

This is how it is achieved—in the broad daylight. (The silence of the press does not help.)

Let's look at this from another angle. I've noted before that people who buy into the personas of these fake accounts tend to get attached. Is there a way to quantify and visualize these relationships? #InformationWarfare#Catfishing

Among the accounts with still-visible replies to the top 10 banned IRA accounts, there are 22156 with at least 10 replies over a span of at least 90 days. Most continued their interactions with their nonexistent "friends" right up until the trollfarm accounts were banned.

Adding some numbers to this thread based on this technique: the idea is to estimate the number of retweets the trollfarm accounts generated for the accounts they boosted based on the average number of RTs the trollfarm accounts' own tweets received.